[tc-list] Re: LXX

Date sent: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 10:07:53 -0800 (PST)
From: "Gregory J. Woodhouse" <news1!gjw@...>
To: "TC-List" <tc-list@...-certr.org>
Subject: [tc-list] Re: LXX
Very interesting. What can be said about similarities between NT
mss. (which?) and LXX mss. here? Gregory Woodhouse gjw@... / http://www.wnetc.com/home.html
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A few years ago, I read a paper on this at an SBL Regional
meeting in St. Louis (March 23, 1996). There are only 19 places in
the UBSGNT/NA/Maj texts where the NT has both an OT quotation
and a textual variant in the quoted part. These are a small number,
but the Maj. Text tends to quote from Hebrew more and the Cr.
Text tends to quote from the LXX more. The Maj. Text deviates
from both the Heb and LXX 26%. The Cr. Text does so 74%. I did
not feel that there was solid evidence that either had been modified
by scribes for the purpose of conforming to a certain OT text. For
details, see my SBL paper. The chart below is simplified from the
paper; it did not survive the transmission well, but is still useful.
Below the Scripture references is found the Maj. then the Cr. For
example, in the first entry, the Maj. follows the LXX and the Cr.
follows the Hebrew. My comments then follow.

NT TEXTUAL FAMILY VARIANTS
OF OT QUOTATIONS

NT/OT PASSAGE

BYZANTINE (MAJORITY)

ALEXANDRIAN (UBS4/NA27)

NOTES AND COMMENTS

Mt. 2:18
Jer. 31:15

LXX

Hebrew

The Maj. mss. add "lamentation" to follow the LXX.

Mk. 10:6-7
Gen. 2:24

LXX/Heb

Deviates

UBS4 {D} text is in brackets, but clearly
attested in LXX, Heb, Maj.

Mk. 12:36
Ps. 110:1

LXX/Heb

Deviates

See Mt. 22:44 - same Cr. deviant; UBS4 does not
list a variant.

Mk. 15:34
Ps. 22:1

Hebrew

Hebrew

Minor variant; both Alex. and Byz. evidence divided.

Lk. 4:4
Dt. 8:3

LXX/Heb

Deviates

Cr. here omits key phrase from OT & the Maj.

Lk. 19:38
Ps. 118:26

Deviates

Deviates

Both texts add the word "king" not found in OT.
Actual variant is minor.